Dave Thomas walked into an election booth in the borough building to vote early on Tuesday and found a folded Citizens for Haines flier with a list of issues and candidates to vote for left inside. 

He crumpled it up and shoved it in his pocket, then finished voting and left the building. It wasn’t until he got home and told his wife that he realized he should have reported it to the clerk. 

“I…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...